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Researchers at Oregon State University say new discoveries about how some Chinook salmon breed could help guide conservation efforts.
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By the end of the week, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will have released 90,000 yearling coho as well as 400,000 Chinook salmon fry into the Klamath River.
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For over a century, four hydroelectric dams along the Oregon-California border have cut off habitat to fish swimming up the Klamath River from the ocean. Now, researchers are in the midst of a project to learn how fish will use this ecosystem once the dams are removed.
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Twenty years ago, tribal youth founded the Salmon Run to call for the removal of four dams along the Klamath River. This year’s run will coincide with work to demolish them.
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A federal regulatory group voted Thursday to officially close king salmon fishing season along much of the West Coast after near-record low numbers of the fish, also known as Chinook, returned to California’s rivers last year.
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The recent onslaught of atmospheric rivers slamming into California has dumped massive amounts of rain and snow in the state, causing widespread flooding and extensive damage. But a Sacramento River flood control project has created feeding conditions that are helping young salmon bulk up for their migration out to sea.
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The ocean salmon fishing season could be closed this year for all of California and most of Oregon, according to the Pacific Fisheries Management Council.
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State officials say the urgency to store more water has vanished as storms swell reservoirs. The reversal is a victory for environmentalists, but they say the damage to salmon and native fish is already done.
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OPB’s Paul Marshall speaks with science and nature writer Miranda Weiss. Weiss traveled to Alaska, snorkeled in a salmon stream and talked to scientists and fishermen about why the fish might be getting smaller, and what impacts that will have in the Pacific Northwest.
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Though tributaries like Horse Creek are far out of the spotlight, they are an integral part of the whole Klamath River ecosystem. Without these, it’s unlikely that dam removal alone will help coho and Chinook fully recover.
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A request to list several populations of Chinook salmon as endangered was approved for review by the National Marine Fisheries Service this week.
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Randy Settler’s family has spent generations fighting for its right to harvest salmon. But the federal government squandered its chance to recover the endangered fish before the onset of climate change. Now, Settler sees it all slipping away again.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has counted 160,000 juvenile winter-run Chinook salmon in the Sacramento River this year, down from an average of 1.3 million.
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Urgently trying to help an endangered species devastated by drought, biologists hauled 40,000 eggs to the McCloud River this year, then brought the young fish back again to migrate. So far, it’s gone well.